The story (I’d almost forgotten there was one) is centred around Barry whose main superpower is being able to run very very fast. If there’s a degree of familiarity and likability about the duo, it’s because they’re riffing on a culturally significant and likeable duo from The Big Bang Theory. And, indeed, it’s worth pointing out that he plays two roles in this film, the other being a younger version of himself who looks strikingly similar to Johnny Galecki’s character, Leonard, in The Big Bang Theory. He’s quirky and geeky, but a bit too close to the Jim Parsons’ character, Sheldon Cooper, in The Big Bang Theory. His performance as Barry Allen (a terrible name for a superhero who also sounds like a brand of Windolene) is okay. But he is and I can’t bring myself to invalidate the work of many hundreds of people that went into the film, including director Andy Muschietti and screenplay by Christina Hodson.Īs a film, however, Ezra Miller is part of why the film works but also the least compelling reason. I’m going to draw a line here, then, and say don’t watch this film if you think the studio did wrong casting Ezra Miller in this film. Much as I understand the rationale behind hating a movie because Ezra Miller is in it (and having now read up a little about what he’s been up to, I do get it), I can hold a contradiction in my mind. I do have the capacity to consider a piece of art separate from the artist. I spent years writing a doctorate on a man whose life defines the whole “yes, but should you be lauding him” school of critical queasiness. ![]() My problem, though, is that I am a Byronist. It also taught me not to Tweet whilst outside, to choose my words more carefully, and to establish the moral purity of everybody in anything I ever watch.Īlthough, there I go again, being glib about something extremely serious. Another person then pointed out that they were “not entirely sure a well-documented history of grooming a minor and violent assault charges should be dismissed as ‘gossip’”. Somebody then asked me if revelations about the star did not cause me a few reservations about supporting the movie. I gave it a ridiculously high mark on my IMDB account which I’ll probably revise if I go to see it again (which I might). The film had surprised me in so many ways, tickled me just right on my nostalgia bone, and done a whole manner of other clever things. I saw the movie on Wednesday, release day, and emerged from the cinema grinning like a fool.
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